Things I would like to do before the world ends

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    I take my inspiration on my meeting with my wonderful CouchHost in Copenhagen, Denmark (København). Her name is Kirsten and her indian “brother” Saurav Arya made one list and inspired me. I may not be as crazy as him, but I think it worth writing it and make this list evolve !

    • Learn by doing in farms (woofing for example)
    • Learn to play contrabass (can be useful : link)
    • Live abroad
    • Speak 4 languages
    • Take time to help someone in need
    • Engage myself in an association in which I believe
    • Take a gap year, a more-than-one-year work pause travelling
    • Meet my second half and have kids
    • Start donating blood, and also other things needed (platelets, …)
    • Sleep by unknown people in an unknown country
    • Build my own house
    • Witness Aurora(s)
    • Go at least one time on each continent
      • Europe
      • North America
      • South America
      • Oceania
      • Antartica
      • Africa
    • Build a “smilotheque”
    • Do recover from high fear
    • Make 1 big walking circuit in each continent
    • Make love on mountains and feel the lack of oxygen
    • Become a teacher
    • Re-(re-re-re-)start studies
    • Do a completely another job for 1 year

    Creating your own countdown timer in Blender

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      Ok, this is my first post in this website, I will try to do it with my best english, to openup these possibilities to everyone.

      I recently wanted to improve my skills on video creating. I always create some simple videos for my friends and family, put it on a DVD with menus and distribute it. But this time I wanted to explore some more complicated things.

      As I am a huge fan of Ultimate Frisbee, and play myself, I thought that creating my first sport video from the finale game of the Bayreuth tournament in Germany, where I played with the Cranberry Snack.

      NOTE : I need to precise that this is my first attempt with Blender, so please be indulgent and give more advice than angry words about it !

      For those who cannot wait to download, test and play with the file, here it is :

      countdown.blend

      (tested on Blender 2.59)

      How does it works ?

      • There is 2 text field (for minutes, and for seconds)
      • The main thing is to update the text on each frame, and this is done with a workaround in Blender.
        The Python script from Atom (see References) included runs like a Timer, each x seconds, and the script test if the frame is the same or if it changed.
        If the frame changed, then we update the text with a little bit math, and Python/Blender functions.
      • If you would like to use it, just changed the variables, change also the end Frame to be 2 times the number of seconds you want + 1.
        Then adapt the appearence (background, color of text, font, movement of camera if desired, etc.) and RENDER !

      Here is the result obtained by the script :

       

      References :

      • The help of Geoff Martin and his attempt to make the same
      • The script made by Atom and used by BenSimonds to use a script changing each frame dynamically